Title: Rules Not Updating Message
Last modified: November 25, 2025

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# Rules Not Updating Message

 *  Resolved [mack99](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mack99/)
 * (@mack99)
 * [5 months, 2 weeks ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/rules-not-updating-message/)
 * I am getting a message that my rules are not updating. When I update manually
   and delete the message, it comes back and it says I haven’t updated rules since
   November 21st. I went into wflogs and the rules.php are actually updating, but
   the message will not go away. Any suggestions?

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 *  Thread Starter [mack99](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mack99/)
 * (@mack99)
 * [5 months, 2 weeks ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/rules-not-updating-message/#post-18732403)
 * I may have corrected this on my own. I deleted all of the contents in my wflogs
   folder, and it repopulated within minutes and the message cleared for now. I 
   will come back and repost if the message returns again. As of now, this appears
   to have corrected the problem.
 *  Plugin Support [wfpeter](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wfpeter/)
 * (@wfpeter)
 * [5 months, 2 weeks ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/rules-not-updating-message/#post-18732598)
 * Hi [@mack99](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mack99/),
 * Aside from considering clearing any server caches or caching plugins, that would
   have been my first suggestion in case something had become corrupted. If the 
   notice does come back, you can bypass it by setting logs to use the MySQLi storage
   engine: [https://www.wordfence.com/help/firewall/mysqli-storage-engine/](https://www.wordfence.com/help/firewall/mysqli-storage-engine/)
 * Many thanks,
   Peter.

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 * Last reply from: [wfpeter](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wfpeter/)
 * Last activity: [5 months, 2 weeks ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/rules-not-updating-message/#post-18732598)
 * Status: resolved